condemn

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To confer some sort of eternal divine punishment upon.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) To scold sharply; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
  5. Verb.  (transitive) To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
  6. Verb.  (transitive) To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
  7. Verb.  (transitive, legal) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.

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